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Austin Barnes

Los Angeles Dodgers National League WestC

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 187 lb
Number: #55

Born: December 28, 1989 in Riverside, CA, United States
MLB debut: May 24, 2015
Drafted: 2011, round 9
College: Arizona State
High school: Riverside Polytechnic
Salary, 2025: $3.5M

dbWAR: 4.4
PA: 44
AVG: .214
OBP: .233
SLG: .286
wRC+: 38

Austin Barnes was a catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2025 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 2 RBIs, notching 9 hits across 44 plate appearances in 13 games. His batting average was .214, 12.6% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .233 clip and slugged .286, for an OPS of .518, 27.9% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 79.5 mph off the bat, hit 20.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.4% of them and made contact on 71.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 38 wRC+ puts his offence 62% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -3.2 runs with the bat, -0.1 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.1 on double plays, +0.8 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2025 regular season.

wRC+38

wOBA.228

ISO.071

BB%2.3%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These terms sum to -1.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2025	LAD	13	44	9	0	2	0	1	14	.214	.233	.286	.071	.321	2.3%	31.8%	.228	-3.2	38	-0.1
2024	LAD	51	156	37	1	11	3	14	36	.264	.331	.307	.043	.350	9.0%	23.1%	.292	-2.5	88	0.6
2023	LAD	59	200	32	2	11	2	17	43	.180	.256	.242	.062	.222	8.5%	21.5%	.231	-15.0	40	-0.6
2022	LAD	61	212	38	8	26	2	27	37	.212	.324	.380	.168	.222	12.7%	17.5%	.318	+1.0	102	1.1
2021	LAD	77	225	43	6	23	1	20	56	.215	.299	.345	.130	.268	8.9%	24.9%	.288	-5.6	81	0.3
2020	LAD	29	104	21	1	9	3	13	24	.244	.353	.314	.070	.323	12.5%	23.1%	.310	-1.1	92	0.5
2019	LAD	74	242	43	5	25	3	23	56	.203	.293	.340	.137	.248	9.5%	23.1%	.274	-10.0	69	-0.0
2018	LAD	93	238	41	4	14	4	31	67	.205	.329	.290	.085	.287	13.0%	28.2%	.283	-6.7	79	0.2
2017	LAD	98	262	63	8	38	4	39	43	.289	.408	.486	.197	.329	14.9%	16.4%	.391	+14.6	147	2.6
2016	LAD	18	37	5	0	2	0	5	9	.156	.270	.188	.031	.217	13.5%	24.3%	.223	-2.9	35	-0.1
2015	LAD	17	37	6	0	1	1	6	6	.207	.361	.276	.069	.261	16.2%	16.2%	.308	-0.3	96	0.1

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Austin Barnes's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2023 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2022 Post	LAD	NLDS	2	3	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	1.000	1.667
2021 Post	LAD	Postseason total	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2020 Post	LAD	Postseason total	10	29	25	4	8	0	1	3	3	5	0	.320	.393	.440	.833
		Wild Card	1	3	3	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333
		NLDS	1	3	2	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
		NLCS	3	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	.286	.286	.286	.571
		World Series	5	16	13	2	2	0	1	2	2	3	0	.154	.267	.385	.651
2018 Post	LAD	Postseason total	10	32	29	0	2	0	0	2	3	14	0	.069	.156	.069	.225
		NLCS	5	20	18	0	2	0	0	2	2	9	0	.111	.200	.111	.311
		World Series	5	12	11	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	.000	.083	.000	.083
2017 Post	LAD	Postseason total	15	52	46	8	10	2	1	5	4	10	1	.217	.288	.326	.615
		NLDS	3	9	8	4	4	1	1	3	1	2	1	.500	.556	1.000	1.556
		NLCS	5	18	15	2	2	0	0	0	3	3	0	.133	.278	.133	.411
		World Series	7	25	23	2	4	1	0	2	0	5	0	.174	.200	.217	.417
2016 Post	LAD	NLDS	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Career		Postseason total · 7 Octobers	43	121	107	13	22	3	2	10	10	32	1	.206	.277	.290	.567

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2025. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	7	7	2	0	0	1	.286	.286	.429	.306	14.3%
vs RHP	37	35	7	0	1	13	.200	.222	.257	.213	35.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 29 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 3.4%
Exit velocity: 79.5
Max exit velo: 105.2
Hard hit: 20.7%
Sweet spot: 37.9%
Launch angle: 2.0°

Barrel rate3.4%

Exit velocity79.5 mph

Hard hit rate20.7%

Contact rate71.4%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2025.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .245.

Situational hitting

How Austin Barnes hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	44	—	—	—	—	—	—	.214	.233	.286	.228
Bases empty · thin	24	24	5	0	0	0	9	.208	.208	.250	.200
Runner on first · thin	12	10	3	0	0	1	1	.300	.364	.400	.341
Runners on · thin	20	18	4	0	2	1	5	.222	.263	.333	.264
RISP · thin	8	8	1	0	2	0	4	.125	.125	.250	.157

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2025.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.